To maximize your machine’s potential and project efficiency, Thompson Tractor recommends selecting the right skid steer bucket. With various bucket types engineered for specific applications, understanding your options helps you tackle any project with confidence and precision.
General-Purpose Buckets: Built for Daily Demands
General-purpose skid steer buckets are the backbone of construction, landscaping, and agricultural work. Available in a range of widths and capacities, these versatile attachments handle everything, from topsoil and gravel to construction debris and snow removal.
Designed with high-grade steel and reinforced side panels along with cutting edges, general-purpose buckets withstand rigorous daily use. Their straight-back design optimizes breakout force for material penetration, while precision-welded stress points prevent cracking under pressure.
Standard tooth bars enhance digging performance, and the bolt-on cutting edge ensures that debris is properly collected, keeping your project on track.
Light Material Buckets: High Efficiency, Low Weight
Light material buckets revolutionize handling low-density materials like mulch, wood chips, compost, and snow. Featuring significantly larger capacities, these oversized buckets move maximum volume per cycle without exceeding your skid steer’s rated operating capacity.
The extended width and increased height of light material buckets reduce spillage during transport, while their lightweight construction maintains optimal machine balance. Bolt-on cutting edges and smooth interiors facilitate clean material release, minimizing stuck loads.
Landscapers, nurseries, and municipalities rely on specialized buckets to dramatically reduce cycle times and labor costs on high-volume projects.
Utility Buckets: Precision and Performance
Utility buckets combine material handling with integrated design features for enhanced functionality. Some models, like the Utility Grapple Bucket, incorporate serrated teeth for improved material retention, making them ideal for sorting, separating, and handling mixed materials.
Other models with the bolt-on cutting edge are equally helpful in collecting and moving materials around jobsites while being cost-effective and extending service life.
These buckets demonstrate moderate capacity to provide excellent visibility, control, and precision — perfect for grading, backfilling trenches, and working in tight areas where motion must be strategic.
Thompson Tractor Is Here to Help You Find the Perfect Bucket!
Thompson Tractor offers a highly experienced service team with valuable, local knowledge to help you find the best tools for your projects. When it comes to buckets, we consider your jobsite terrain, machine specifications, and the materials you are working with.
Ready to equip your team with a new and efficient skid steer loader bucket? Contact Thompson Tractor to learn more about next steps.
